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Graduate Counselor _T
Thursday Morning, March 27,-1941
Fifty per cent of the senior class wants Henry
Vtimum Poor placed on the College faculty until
he can complete his Old Main MuxaL
nationals Turn Spotlight
in Collegiate Boxing's Future
With the greatest show in collegiate boxing be
ing staged in Rec Hall this weekend, it seems to
tie the proper moment to raise pertinent questions
about the future of collegiate fisticuffs.
Certain disturbing rumblings have been heard
in the past year, which on the surface raise the
query, “Is college boxing on the way out?”
When we check up on the record, we find that
last year seven colleges, including the University
of Mississippi, Yale. Mississippi State, Tulane,
Duke, and North Carolina State, dropped boxing
as an intercollegiate sport, followed this year by
Cornell’s announcement that it would confine it
self to intramural boxing and Rutgers’ “investiga
tion” of the sport.
All of which seems to answer a loud “Yes,’ to
the question posed above. But this is not the
whole story. Perhaps the question would be bet
ter phrased if we asked “Is college boxing knock
ing itself out?”
In our search for evidence, we find that colleg
iate boxing eligibility rules apparently put a prem
ium on inexperience. For they state that “Any
one who has ever participated in a public boxing
contest after reaching his sixteenth birthday . . .
except one carried on between. colleges, prepara
tory -schools, or high schools, shall be ineligible to
participate in college boxing."
The catch in this is the fact that comparatively
few high schools or preparatory schools have ade
quate facilities or proper supervision for training
boxers. The majority of college boxers have had
little opportunity to get ring experience outside of
amateur bouts, as a result, and -such amateur ex
perience is enough to outlaw the boxer from col
lege competition as we at Penn State have learned.
So we see college coaches faced with an almost
unsurmountable task—that of training green men
to collegiate standards. Unfortunately, the rules
ore not consistent. This weekend, for instance,
we will be treated to the spectacle of a former
amateur boxer and Olympic titlist entering a ring
from which, under the rules, other boxers with
comparatively meager amateur experience are
barred. ~
A Solution to boxing's woes may be presented in
the high school clinic, held for both boxers and
coaches, which Coach Johnny Walsh of Wisconsin
has inaugurated at Madison, Wis.
With proper coaching and protective equipment,
the greatest threat to the high school boxer—in
juries—can be reduced to a minimum where box
ing is no more dangerous than any other sport.
We can point, for example, to Uncle Sam’s
Army, where physical fitness is of utmost import
ance. Boxing, taught the Army way, and with the
Army’s safety equipment, apparently constitutes
no physical danger to Uncle Sam’s protectors.
Collegiate boxing, then, is not without hope. We
believes that with a proper education system by
which high school and preparatory school coaches
learn correct boxing and coaching techniques,
by which the need for using protective equipment
is demonstrated, and by which the importance of
the physical condition of boxers is stressed, will
return collegiate boxing to its former pinnacle.
Coach Walsh’s clinic is a step in the i"ight direc
tion. Plans are being prepared for a similar clinic
under Penn State’s Leo Houck here next year.
With the spread of similar clinics for high school
participants, the tide, especially evident in the
East, may be turned. That collegiate boxing should
decline while other boxing circles prosper indi
cates that, it is tune for the colleges to stop knock-
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CAMPUSEER
(The opinions expressed in this column do not .necessarily re
flect the editorial policy of The Daily Ollem’an. i
Telling Them
It was Saturday night in central Pennsylvania’s
favorite Entertainment Palace, the Cathaum. Pres
ident Roosevelt was speaking from the screen!
amid hearty catcalls, boos, hisses, and assorted
shrieks from disapproving collegiate spectators.
Suddenly a terrific booming shout shook the
building: “SHUT UP YOU MORONS!”
Leslie Lewis had spoken.
Shafted By A Siren
“Hello —is this Miss L-l-lamarr? I’m calling
from Pennsylvania State College in Pennsylvania.
Could you come up for Junior Prom? Paul White-
man is playing.” ... > •
“I’m sorry—l’d like to but I really couldn’t on
account of previous engagements.” ' ■
-Shaking like a leaf, Buzz Litman laid down the
phone. His person-to-person call to the glamorous
Hedy had yielded no Junior Prom date—only a
bill for $3.90.
And all because he went to see “Algiers.”
* “Glee!” Club
Wrecking crews were busy, this week repairing
the Hotel New Yorker after the high-note boys
went in for a little high-life in the big town last
weekend.
Notable among the merry-makers was one Les
Hetenyi, who invested approximately $37 in cham
-1 pagne. Also enjoying himself was one-Bill Lun
delius, who found himself a super-super date for
the dance in the New Yorker. But let Bill tell the
story in his own words:
“We were dancing—then the lights went out . . .
so 1 asked her to Junior Prom.”
Booster Golyum
This week we should like to help along 'with an.
enthusiastic hand ... •
Winnie Bischoff, darling of KKG and columnist's
dream, who, after a few tense moments, suc
ceeded in attaching to her person jewelry of one
Bill Christman last Monday night.
Lieutenant Gilliard of the local military moguls,
who has found the perfect remedy for the som
nambulant tendencies of ROTC students. He ap
points certain fellows to whistle at regular in
tervals during class.
Miss Charlotte Ray, who finally discovered that'
the word “mixed” may apply to other things be
sides the ingredients of certain beverages. •
The boys of Kappa Sigma and their ;dates. who in
dulged in all modern trends in collegiate amuse
ments a la Pennsy State last weekend. Their
diversions included roller-skating, jumping
‘Farmer-in-the-dell” and a good swift
game of “Coffee pot and Charades.”
Last year’s BMOC boys who are planning an OLD
HOME WEEK here this weekend—Bus Ander
son, Dave Pergrin, Bill Engel. George Schless,
Wacky Newberry, Bill Stohldrier, etc. etc. etc.
Hold onto your dates, boys—here they come!
"There are in the United States far more uni
versities, colleges and other operating institutions,
and far more voluntary organizations for worthy
purposes than the nation can possibly afford. In
the years to come many of these are bound to dis
appear." Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, president of
the Carnegie Corporation of New York, predicts
a weeding out of universities and philanthropies.
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Leo Houck, boxing coach, was middleweight'-division in
the uncrowned champion of the 1910’s.
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